“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” – C. S. Lewis

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“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.” – C. S. Lewis

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“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.” – C. S. Lewis

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“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito.” – C. S. Lewis

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“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C. S. Lewis

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“The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred.” – C. S. Lewis

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“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” – C. S. Lewis

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“The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C. S. Lewis

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“It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.” – C. S. Lewis

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“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Being in love” first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.” – C. S. Lewis

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“To love at all is to be vulnerable.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.” – C. S. Lewis

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“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.” – C. S. Lewis

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“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.” – C. S. Lewis

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“We do not want merely to see beauty… We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.” – C. S. Lewis

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“You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.” – C. S. Lewis

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“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” – C. S. Lewis

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“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.” – C. S. Lewis

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“All get what they want; they do not always like it.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Forgiveness does not mean excusing.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…” – C. S. Lewis

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“A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.” – C. S. Lewis

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“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” – C. S. Lewis

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“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” – C. S. Lewis

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” – C. S. Lewis

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“It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.” – C. S. Lewis

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“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis

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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Good English’ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.” – C. S. Lewis

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“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.” – C. S. Lewis

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“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.” – C. S. Lewis

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“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” – C. S. Lewis

21

“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.” – C. S. Lewis

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“We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.” – C. S. Lewis

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“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.” – C. S. Lewis

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“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” – C. S. Lewis

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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” – C. S. Lewis

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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C. S. Lewis

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“Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.” – C. S. Lewis